This is another diary in defence of Howard Dean's recently critisized remarks on Iraq and the war. This criticism is unfair in the extreme, but then who said that politics would be fair. Before we became a republic based upon democratic principles, it was considered sedition to speak against the King even if it were the truth.
Howard Dean's remarks are even coming under fire by Democrats, such is the loyalty to the new King George. Please Democratic leaders and elected officials, catch up with you party faithful. We detest this war. We see no strategic purpose and we are angry about the dead and seriously injured citizens - our children, father, mothers, brothers and sisters all - who sacrifice themselves for what? Howard Dean please continue to speak out against the King. Senators listen. Congress know this; you can stop this now. Find Congressman Murtha and ask you can help him. And now for reminder of what has been said:
Howard Dean had the temerity to say the following in a radio interview in San Antonio, Texas:
12/6/2005
SAN ANTONIO) -- Saying the "idea that we're going to win the war in Iraq is an idea which is just plain wrong," Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean predicted today that the Democratic Party will come together on a proposal to withdraw National Guard and Reserve troops immediately, and all US forces within two years.
Dean made his comments in an interview on WOAI Radio in San Antonio.
"I've seen this before in my life. This is the same situation we had in Vietnam. Everybody then kept saying, 'just another year, just stay the course, we'll have a victory.' Well, we didn't have a victory, and this policy cost the lives of an additional 25,000 troops because we were too stubborn to recognize what was happening."
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So Dean starts to receive the wrath of the Bushco war mongering hate machine. Even King Georege adds his voice to the crticism.
December 7, 2005
WASHINGTON -- President Bush and other Republican leaders criticized Howard Dean, the Democratic Party chairman, Tuesday for suggesting in a radio interview that the United States could not win the war in Iraq.
Bush, who is trying to revive public support for the Iraq war, was asked about Dean's comments after meeting with Lee Jong-wook, director-general of the World Health Organization.
"Oh, there's pessimists, you know, and politicians who try to score points," the president replied. "Our troops need to know that the American people stand with them, and we have a strategy for victory."
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) also weighed in, saying Dean had "made it clear the Democratic Party sides with those who wish to surrender."
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Yes King George we are pessimists in this question. You have given no one cause to see optimism in this Iraqi matter in any way. You burn our soldiers lives with wreckless abandon. You surround yourself with yes MEN and even some women who care not for the sacrfice you require. But perhaps most of all your policy makes no sense to us. We see no gain ir legitimate cause for this war.
And our pessimism is a tangible and loud expression of support for our troops! Speaker Hastert we side for peace for our troops - and that is not surrender because the conflict in Iraq no longer is ours. It is theres and we are in the way. You may recall that King George has already declared "Mission Accomplished." Was he wrong?
Now I am weary of those who wish attack people willing to speak truth about the senseless war in Iraq. But it is with great discrimination that the attacks on nay sayers is leveled. Do you recall the words of Senator Hagel?
6/27/05
Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel is angry. He's upset about the more than 1,700 U.S. soldiers killed and nearly 13,000 wounded in Iraq. He's also aggravated by the continued string of sunny assessments from the Bush administration, such as Vice President Dick Cheney's recent remark that the insurgency is in its "last throes." "Things aren't getting better; they're getting worse. The White House is completely disconnected from reality," Hagel tells U.S. News. "It's like they're just making it up as they go along. The reality is that we're losing in Iraq."
That's strikingly blunt talk from a member of the president's party, even one cast as something of a pariah in the GOP because of his early skepticism about the war. "I got beat up pretty good by my own party and the White House that I was not a loyal Republican," he says. Today, he notes, things are changing: "More and more of my colleagues up here are concerned."
What a fucking traitor!
But uis sounds no different than our good Doctor. But wait is so much different than even the word of the King? Let me remind you:
Aug. 30, 2004
In an interview on NBC-TV's "Today" show, Mr. Bush vowed to stay the course in the war on terror, saying perseverance in the battle would make the world safer for future generations. But he suggested an all-out victory against terrorism might not be possible.
Asked "Can we win?" Mr. Mr. Bush said, "I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create conditions so that the -- those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world."
And the response to Howard Dean by the ever obsequeous Republican chairman Mehlman:
Ken Mehlman, the Republican Party chairman, told the San Antonio radio station Tuesday: "I can't remember any time in history where the leader of a national party, one of our two national parties, predicted that America would lose a war we were engaged in. I think it sends the wrong message to our troops, the wrong message to the enemy, the wrong message to the Iraqi people."
The troops are getting the right messaage - there are some who understand - and want you home now. Mehlman says that the wrong message is sent to the Iraqi people. No mention of the American people - maybe that is the problem with the policy. They just don't care about the American people and what they think.